Henry Newton Brown

Henry Newton Brown
Born	1857 Phelps County, Missouri
Died	April 30, 1884 (aged 26-27) Medicine Lodge, Kansas
Cause of death	Gunshot
Nationality	American
Other names	none
Occupation	Lawman Gunfighter Gambler
Criminal charge	Bank robbery
Spouse(s)	Alice Maude Levagood
Children	Unknown
Parent(s)	Jasper and Aldamira Richardson (Uncle and Aunt)

Lawman

Gunfighter

Henry Newton Brown (1857 – April 30, 1884) was an American Old West gunman who played the roles of both lawman and outlaw during his life.

Brown was raised in Cold Springs Township, in Phelps County, ten miles south of Rolla, Missouri. An orphan, he lived there with his uncle Jasper and aunt Aldamira Richardson until the age of seventeen, when he left home and headed west. He drifted through various cowboy jobs in Colorado and Texas, supposedly killing a man in a gunfight in the Texas Panhandle.

In 1877, Brown landed in the New Mexico Territory, and became embroiled in the Lincoln County War, a battle of wills for economic domination of the region between two opposing factions. The first was the association of Attorney Alexander McSween and John H. Tunstall, sometimes noted as “the good guys.” They had the support of cattle baron John Chisum and a company of young working cowboys that were to become proficient gunmen known as “The Regulators.” Brown joined Billy the Kid and others of this group as a cowboy working on Tunstall’s Rio Feliz Ranch.

The opposing faction, sometimes noted as the “bad guys,” were known as “The House” was the partnership of Major Lawrence G. Murphy and James J. Dolan, bolstered by a powerful political machine known as the “Santa Fe Ring.” Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady and his deputies, as well as a cadre of gunmen, were loyal to “The House.”

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